There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live for ourselves alone.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
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The eyes are the gateway to the soul.
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
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Whatever my fate, I’ll go to it laughing.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
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One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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